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iOS / Web Developer // (new jersey)UpdateZen

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I am looking for exceptional iOS and Web developers to join Updated.io. Our very disruptive mobile productivity application will be at the intersection of Mobile, SaaS, Enterprise, B2B and Productivity-- a very desirable space to be in. For this position, you MUST want to work full-time in Northern NJ-- no remote workers need apply. We are very early stage, and the sky's the limit. I am simply looking for the right small team to build out the solution and take it to market. I'm putting together a lean but brilliant 4-5 person team, including 2 developers, 1 UI/Ux designer, 1 marketer/growth-hacker, and myself.

Please do not simply submit your resume alone. You must include a cover note along with your resume, indicating why this opportunity appeals to you, and why you feel you might be a good fit for Updated.io.

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What am I looking for in a developer? I need 2 innovative, talented, experienced, collaborative, communicative, fun, and knowledgeable iOS and/or Web developers who genuinely want to join a true startup... a very early stage startup with sky-high potential in one of the most desirable and lucrative spaces in tech right now: Mobile, SaaS, B2B, Enterprise, Productivity.

You must live in and want to work in the great state of New Jersey... specifically Northern Jersey. The office will be located near Montclair, NJ. I'm looking to build a very small, very talented, very productive and very FUN team that works together in the same physical location most, if not all, of the week... creating something highly disruptive, very useful and extremely lucrative for all of us.

Ideally you understand and have experience with both iOS AND web development, and have good knowledge and experience with back-end, front-end, devops, and the full-stack. However, if you are simply a brilliant iOS developer with no back-end experience, I'd still like to hear from you. I need 2 developers covering the full-stack competencies. You must be very collaborative in order to make this work. I'm sure you are.

What stage is the company at right now? I have spent months conducting customer development calls with potential users/customers. I have validated the pain in the market and my proposed solution has been received with unusual enthusiasm on these customer development calls. After validating the value proposition, I then hired the best UI/Ux designers I've ever met, and we are now finishing up a deep planning and discovery phase which will result in a complete FRD - with detailed workflows and wireframes and mockups and look/feel. So now I am looking to bring the project in-house with 2 developers to begin coding the MVP - which will take at least 3 months. We will then do a soft-launch to a couple hundred invite-only beta users and we'll incorporate their feedback for a month or two. Then when greater than 90% of these beta users are absolutely enthusiastic about the product, we will open the gates, and do a major PR, viral and facilitated word-of-mouth campaign to roll out the product.

At that point, once we have 100+ paying customers who are enthusiastic evangelists for our product, we will likely raise some angel and/or VC capital to scale quickly. Why wait? Many reasons, including... I have great seed funding now and a good budget set aside to get us to MVP/launch. I know what I want to build, how I want to build it, how I want to roll it out, and I want to stay lean and smart in building my team and developing the MVP. The company will be more valuable, and your equity will be more valuable, if we build the MVP and get initial market traction first, and then raise capital - if needed. Because the business model has a monetization-first approach, we may be able to fund more much quickly through revenue.

This is a business that sets out to monetize immediately after launching. There is a short free trial, followed by a monthly or annual subscription. This product will have real and immediate value in the enterprise market, and that value will warrant a paid subscription right after the initial free trial.

You should know this is my second startup. My first was a successful enterprise healthcare software company which I built up for the past 8 years. I am now launching Updated.io because I found a massive pain in the market that I know how to solve, and I love solving big problems with elegant software solutions that delight the user. Lastly, I am something of a productivity and efficiency geek... and have a passion for building software that can truly make users more efficient, productive and ultimately, happy.

I'm providing all this information so you have a better sense of my vision for the company now as you consider whether to apply for the open developer positions. There is NO more exciting company, product or vision out there right now. I just need 2 development all-stars and hopefully you are one of them.

I hope to hear from you. This is gonna be a LOT of fun for the right people.

UpdateZen is a mobile-first solution that provides executives and managers with beautiful visibility into the status of everything important their people are working on. Beta Test / Clinical Trials < 5M RaisedSelf FundedAll Jobs:at UpdateZen

UpdateZen is very close to our private Beta... four of us... 2 brilliant developers, 1 terribly tasteful designer, and me, the founder. We're building a HIGHLY disruptive product for the mobile productivity market. And the open seat right now is for a very creative, resourceful marketing director (or "growth hacker" - if you prefer) who can help us launch our mobile solution into Beta, through Beta, into public launch, to initial traction, and then to organic scaling through terribly creative means.
Getting updated by your people, and tracking the status of the key things they're working on, is just not fun. It's not enjoyable, it's not organized, and it's highly stressful... for both the Team Lead (a CEO, Executive, VP, Director, Manager) and the Team Member (Direct Reports, Colleagues, Co-workers, Freelancers, Consultants, Contractors, Key Relationships).
Leaders are deluged with updates from across their team, through emails, spreadsheets, Word docs, texts, IM's, project management applications, etc... It's a mess. And email seems to just pile up furiously. And unnecessarily.
UpdateZen allows Team Members to effortlessly and enjoyably update their "boss" through a gorgeous iPhone app and a full functionality web app. And UpdateZen allows Team Leads to quickly review just the "need to know" updates from across their team in seconds via their own iPhone app or web app.
UpdatedZen headquarters are a gorgeous open office in the active NYC outpost of Montclair, NJ. We have people working here that live in NY, and those that live in NYC. We're only a 30 minute trainride from NYC's Penn Station to our location in Montclair
If you are someone who thinks big, wants to solve a huge, validated problem in the market, and is a uniquely talented marketing/growthhacker type of person, I'd LOVE to hear from you. If you want to join UpdateZen, then salary AND equity should both matter... alot. I don't want mercenaries. I want highly creative thinkers and geniuses in engineering, design and marketing... people who communicate well and work well with other creatives. It's a team effort, so you should truly enjoy working on a brilliant think-outside-the-box team if you want to apply.